Get your free Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day trial
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Windows 7 Enterprise trial is designed specifically for IT Professionals, so that you can test your software and hardware on a final version of the product. In addition, it provides the opportunity for you to become more familiar with the key improvements over previous versions of the Windows operating system, and experience firsthand how Windows [...]
How to install Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Windows Virtual PC requires hardware-assisted virtualization. But what if your processor doesn’t support it? Then you may want to install Virtual PC 2007, but in most cases, you get an error saying: This program is blocked due to compatibility issues. Virtual PC 2007 SP1 is not supported on this version of Windows. For more information, [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Monday, August 17th, 2009Today I downloaded Windows Server 2008 R2. Few days ago I downloaded and installed Windows 7 from MSDN. Now I have two newest Windows operating systems burned on DVDs, and I had to take one photo of them. Just for fun .
Windows 7 Professional available to download for MSDNAA users
Friday, August 14th, 2009MSDN Academic Alliance is special MSDN subscription package for students. With MSDN AA they can download all Microsoft’s software that they need for their studies and for private use, and everything is free. For example, they can download Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 Standard and Enterprise, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Office Visio… Commercial use [...]
Switched to Windows 7 Ultimate RTM
Friday, August 14th, 2009Yesterday I switched from Windows 7 Ultimate RC to Windows 7 Ultimate RTM. I could upgrade (it is not officially supported, but it can be done), but I decided to do clean install. Of course, I wanted to save my data, settings and programs from the old OS, so I decided to use Easy File [...]
Download Windows 7
Thursday, August 6th, 2009I just saw that Windows 7 is available for download to all MSDN and Technet subscribers. The day that I’ve been waiting for so long has finally come, and now I’ll download my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. I wrote few posts about Windows 7, check out Windows 7 tag and Windows 7 category for [...]
Download XP Mode RC
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009According to The Windows Team Blog, XP Mode for Windows 7 is now release candidate (RC). Windows XP Mode is add-on for Windows 7, which enables you to get FREE copy of Windows XP that you can run virtually. Why do you need this? If you have some old application that doesn’t work in Windows [...]
Why I use Windows?
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Since I’ve been using computers, I hear never ending stories and arguments which operating system is better. Those “wars” were usually between Windows and Linux “fans”, and today we have 3rd category: Mac users. These days, fans of all three operating systems have good arguments to claim that their operating system is the best. I [...]
Official announcement of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Microsoft has published video showing the most important moments of announcing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM at MGX conference in Atlanta. I am very surprised by the size of the audience at MGX and their reaction after Steven Sinofsky announced news that we have been waiting for so long. As Marin noticed, [...]
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Microsoft has RTM’d Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Customers will get their copies on these dates: Technet subscribers: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages MSDN subscribes: August 6 in English, October 1 remaining languages Software Assurance (SA) customers: August 7, remaining languages a couple of weeks later Microsoft Partner Network (MPN): August [...]
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